pakarinen wrote: ↑Sat Feb 04, 2023 5:00 pm
Jnicholes wrote: ↑Sat Jan 28, 2023 11:29 pm
I use Nightcap on my Iphone 11 with my telescope, with pretty good results. You just got to know how to use it properly. After doing phone editing, like raising exposure, brilliance, etc, I get great photos.
What settings are you using? I just downloaded NC onto my iPhone and it looks like the longest exposure I can make is 1/2-sec, which seems odd.
I have two other apps and while they have limited features, I can do much longer exposures.
Do you see the star symbol on the lower left of the screen when you pull up the
app and are in the camera? If you do, tap it, and then select “long exposure.” What I like to do, is set the ISO to 12500. I do this by swiping up on the left side of the phone. This makes it brighter. You can adjust this if it gets too bright, though.
I also swipe up on the right side of the phone and set it to 1/1. This is the exposure. I find this is the only way to capture big detail on objects like the Orion nebula. It also helps see faint objects like the black eye galaxy.
On the bottom, is the FOC. I just adjust that until the image is nice and crisp. I would focus your telescope, first, then use that to fine-tune the focus. It will continue to auto focus sometimes during the exposure, if you don’t set it.
If you want to do a brighter object, like the moon, don’t use too high an exposure and ISO.
You can use this to capture sunspots on the sun. However, you need a solar filter.
That’s about all the advice I can give right now. I have yet to make this
app work for planetary observing, but I’m still working on it. I actually reached out to the company, and they gave me some good tips. I’ll see if I can find that email and post what they said.
If you need more help, I can post a screenshot from my phone to show you what I mean.
Good luck, and I’m glad I was able to teach somebody some thing this time!
Jared